Chapter 10 The Story of Cricket Important Questions Class 7 Honeycomb English
Short Answer Type Questions
Question 1. Name one oval and one circular shaped cricket ground.
Answer
Cricket ground is Adelaide in Australia is oval and Chepauk Stadium in Chennai is circular in shape.
Question 2. What was the original shape of a bat?
Answer
A bat was similar to hockey stick, curving outwards at the bottom.
Question 3. What are the major transformation happened in Indian cricket?
Answer
The major transformation are best paid players, replacement of gentlemanly amateur by the paid professionals and global commerce and technology.
Question 4. What is the role of Zoroastrians in cricket?
Answer
Zoroastrians the Persis was the first Indian community to start playing the game.
Question 5. What is the role of Television in changing cricket?
Answer
The role of television is that it expanded the audiences for the game of beaming cricket into small towns and villages.
Question 6. The Parsis were the first Indian community to take to cricket why?
Answer
Parsis were in the close contact with the British because of their interest in trade. They were the first Indian community to westernise and went up taking up the game of cricket.
Question 7. How is Test Cricket a unique game in many ways?
Answer
Test cricket is a unique game as it can go on for five days and still end in a draw. No other modern team sport takes even half as much time to complete.
Question 8. What is a length of a test cricket match?
Answer
A test cricket match is usually played for five days.
Question 9. What were the two major changes that happened by the year 1780?
Answer
By 1780, three days had become the length of a major match and creation of the first six-seam cricket ball was witnessed.
Question 10. What materials is used to make a cricket bat?
Answer
As the cricket bat consists of two parts the blade is made of willow wood and its handle is made of cane.
Question 11. Who is Dada Bhai Naoroji?
Answer
Dada Bhai Naoroji is amongst the founder members of Indian National congress and the great Parsi statesman and intellectual.
Question 12. Why was C.K. Nayudu popular for?
Answer
C.K. Nayudu was an outstanding Indian batsman of his time. He was the first test captain of the country.
Question 13. ‘The rivalry between the Parsis and the Bombay Gymkhana had a happy ending for the former’. What does ‘a happy ending’ refer to?
Answer
The ‘happy ending refers to the victory of a Parsis team over the Bombay Gymkhana in a game of cricket in 1889. Just four years after the foundation of the Indian National Congress in 1885.
Question 14. What do you understand by the games (cricket) ‘equipment’?
Answer
The things which are necessary for playing the game are games (cricket) ‘equipment’. Like in a ball, bat, wicket, helmets, gloves, pads are the required things to play the match.
Long Answer Type Questions
Question 1. Explain how cricket changed with changing times and yet remained unchanged in some ways.
Answer
With the change of times, technology get more advanced and players started wearing protective equipment. Earlier the bat was made of one piece. Today it has a separate blade and handle. Decisions became more fair with motion-sensor cameras. But still, both bat and ball are handmade, not industrially manufactured.
Question 2. Why was cricket a large viewership in India, not to China or Russia?
Answer
Cricket is popular mostly in the colonial countries of British empire not the sovereign countries. India was only the part of the British empire not the China or Russia. Therefore, cricket has large viewership in India, not in China or Russia. Moreover, TV companies have created a global market for cricket in India.
Question 3. Playing games helps in developing personality of a child. Give reasons in support of your answer.
Answer
A child is born with innate qualities. They get subdued with time if they are not evoked on time. Games/ sports give an opportunity to blossom there in-born talents involvement and inclination required in games develops team spirit, leadership, helps to overcome hurdles, pain makes one passionate enough to reach his goal-operation and respect for other develops an individual. Children forget difference and get associated with each other while playing games.
Question 4. ‘Cricket is the most sought after sports’. How is it important for ‘National Integration?
Answer
Sports is an integral part of a healthy life. It helps in staying fit and achieving common goals. Cricket appears to be the most appealing national entertainment. Expert players represent nation, big companies sponsor this sport, and children play it in ground and streets too. During matches, spectators support the players and audiences at home stick to T.V. The player are given prizes and showered with love and blessings. National Integration is obvious if India plays with Pakistan or Australia with New Zealand. It brings together the whole nation.
Question 5. Did you think cricket owes its present popularity to television? Justify your answer.
Answer
Yes, cricket owes its popularity to television. It has expanded the audience of the game by taking cricket to villages and small town. Children from these places now had the chance to learn the game, seeing the international games and imitating their favourite cricketers.
Question 6. How is cricket different from other team games?
Answer
Cricket is different from other team games because in cricket, the length of the pitch is mentioned as 22 yards. However, the shape of the ground could be oval or circular. There is no specific measurement for the size of the ground as well. It is the only game played for five days and can end without a specific result. Unlike cricket, many other popular games like hockey or football follow certain specification for grounds.
Question 7. How have advances in technology affected the game of cricket?
Answer
The advances in technology have affected the game of cricket in the matter of protective equipment. The invention of vulcanised rubber led to the introduction of pads in 1848 and protective gloves soon afterward. The modern game would be unimaginable without helmets made out of metal and synthetic light weight materials.
Extract Based Questions
Extract 1
Cricket grew out of the many stick-and ball games played in England 500 years ago. The word ‘bat’ is an old English word that simply mean stick or club. By the seventeenth century, cricket had enough to be recognisable as a distinct game. Till the middle of the eighteenth century, bats were roughly the same shape as hockey sticks, curving outwards at the bottom. There was a simple reason for this: the ball was bowled underarm, along the ground and the curve at the end of the bat gave the batsman the best chance of making contact.
(i) How has the cricket originated?
(ii) What does ‘bat’ mean? ‘
(iii) ‘What was the shape of the bat in eighteenth century?
(iv) How did the curve of the bat help the batsman?
(v) Write antonym of ‘recognisable’.
Answer
(i) The cricket is originated in England around 500 years ago with many stick and ball games.
(ii) ‘Bat’ is an old English word that simply mean stick or club.
(iii) Bats were curved outwards at the bottom roughly the same shape as hockey sticks.
(iv) The curve at the end of the bat gave the batsman the best chance of making contact.
(v) Unfamiliar.
Extract 2
There’s a historical reason behind both these oddities. Cricket was the earliest modern team sport to be codified. The first written ‘Laws of cricket’ were drawn up in 1744. They started, “the principals shall choose from amongst the gentlemen present two umpires who shall absolutely decide all disputes.
The stumps must be 22 inches high and the bail across them six inches. The ball must be between five and six ounces, and the two sets of stumps 22 yards apart”, the world’s first cricket club was formed in Hambledon in the 1760 s and the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) was founded in 1787. During the 1760s and 1770s it became common to pitch the ball through the air rather than roll it along the ground. This change gave bowlers the options of length, deception through the air, plus increased pace.
It also opened new possibilities for spin and swing. In response, batsmen had to master timing and shot selection. One immediate result was the replacement of the curved bat with straight one. The weight of the ball was limited to between 5V2 to 572 ounces, and the width of the bat to four inches. In 1774, the first leg-before law was published. Also around this time, a third stump became common. By 1780, three days had become the length of a major match, and this years also saw the creation of the first six-seam cricket ball.
(i) When were ‘Laws of Cricket’ written?
(ii) What was the role of umpire in the game?
(iii) What is the height of stumps?
(iv) When was the first cricket club was formed in Hambledon?
(v) Change noun ‘oddities’ into an adjective.
Answer
(i) The written Laws of Cricket were drawn up in 1744.
(ii) The two umpires were enabled to decide all disputes with absolute powers.
(iii) The height of stumps must be 22 inches high.
(iv) The first cricket club was formed in Hambledon in the 1760’s.
(v) Odd.
Extract 3
If you look at the game’s equipment, you can see how cricket both changed with changing times and yet fundamentally remained true to its origins in rural England. Cricket’s most important tools are all made of natural, preindustrial materials. The bat is made with leather, twine and cork. Even today both bat and ball are handmade, not industrially manufactured. The material of the bat changed slightly over time. Once it was cut out of a single piece of wood. Now it consists of two pieces, the blade which is made out of the wood of the willow tree and the handle which is made out of cane that became available as European colonialists and trading companies established themselves in Asia. Unlike golf and tennis, cricket has refused to remake its tools with industrial or man-made materials: Plastic, fiberglass and metal have been firmly rejected.
(i) What were the materials used for making bat?(ii) What is the change evident in bat making?
(iii) How is the cane available for bat making?
(iv) What inatuials are rejected in tool making?
(v) Write synonym of ‘refusal’.
Answer
(i) The bat was made of leather, twine and cork.
(ii) The bat consists of two pieces made of willow and cane.
(iii) The cane became available to European colonialists and trading companies as they established themselves in Asia.
(iv) Materials like plastic, fiber glass and metal have been firmly rejected.
(v) Decline.
Extract 4
Modem cricket is dominated by Tests and one-day internationals, played between national teams. The players who become famous, who live on in the memories of cricket’s public, are those who have played for their country. The players that Indian fans remember even now are those who were fortunate enough to play Test cricket. C.K. Nayudu, an outstanding Indian batsman of his time, Lives on in the popular imagination when some of his great contemporaries like Palwankar Vithal and Palwankar Baloo have been forgotten. Even though Nayudu was past his cricketing prime when he played for India in its first Test matches against England starting in 1932, his place in India’s cricket history is assured because he was the country’s first Test Captain.
(i) Who live in the memories of cricket public?
(ii) Who is C.K. Nayudu?
(iii) Who were contemporaries of C.K. Nayudu?
(iv) When did the Nayudu play his first test match against England?
(v) What is the meaning of ‘fortunate’?
Answer
(i) The player who become famous are those who have played for the country.
(ii) C.K. Nayudu was the first test captain of the country.
(iii) Palwankar Vithal and Palwankar Baloo were the contemporaries of C.K. Nayudu.
(iv) C.K. Nayudu played his first test match against England in the year 1932.
(v) Lucky.
Extract 5
One hundred and fifty year ago the first Indian cricketers, the Parsis, had to struggle to find an open space to play in. Today, the global marketplace has made Indian players the best-paid. Most famous cricketers in the game, Men for whom the world is a stage. This transformation was made up of many smaller changes: the replacement of the gentlemanly amateur by the paid professional, the triumph of the one-day game as it overshadowed Test cricket in terms of popularity, and the remarkable changes in global commerce and technology. ‘
(i) How has the game changed in India?
(ii) How has ‘global marketplace’ helped Indian players?
(iii) How was the popularity of test cricket is overshadowed?
(iv) Who is responsible for cricket game?
(v) Explain: world is a stage.
Answer
(i) In India, Parsis had to struggle to find an open space to play in.
(ii) Global Marketplace has made Indian players the best paid cricketers.
(iii) One day cricket matches one preferred over test matches by the Indian cricket fans.
(iv) Global commerce and technology is responsible for changes in cricket game.
(v) The lines were written by Shakespeare that the world is a stage and we all are actors. We do our role play.